--- abstract: Congenital Insensitivity to Pain belongs to the family of Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathies (HSAN). It is a rare disorder of unknown etiology associated with loss of pain sensation. Cognition and sensation is otherwise normal and there is no detectable physical abnormality. We report a case of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain in a 3 year old female child. altloc: - http://www.ojhas.org/issue36/2010-4-29.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - dr_praveenrao@yahoo.co.in - ~ - ~ creators_name: - family: B given: Praveen Kumar honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: S given: Sudhakar honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: MPV given: Prabhat honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2011-01-20 date_type: published datestamp: 2011-05-02 17:14:59 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/72/76 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: - BS Kakkilaya editors_name: - family: Kakkilaya given: Srinivas honourific: Dr lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 7276 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/7276/1/2010%2D4%2D29.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: Congenital; Pain; Insensitivity; Nerve; HSAN lastmod: 2011-05-02 17:14:59 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 4 pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences publisher: BS Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: "1.\tMerskey H, Bogduk N, editors. Classification of chronic pain, Task Force on Taxonomy, International Association for the Study of Pain. 2nd ed. Seattle: IASP Press: 1994. p. 210-213.\r\n2.\tCox JJ et al. An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain. Nature. 2006;444:894-898.\r\n3.\tUnknown author. Insensitivity to pain. BMJ 1973;27:187-188.\r\n4.\tNishida G. Congenital Anhidrosis. Saishin Igaku (Japan) 1951;6:1100-1104.\r\n5.\tDrenth JPH, Waxman SG. Mutations in sodium-channel gene SCN9A cause a spectrum of human genetic pain disorders. J. Clin. Invest 2007;117(12):3603-3609.\r\n6.\tProtheroe SM. Congenital insensitivity to pain. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1991;84:558-559.\r\n7.\tFelicia B, Max J. Inherited Autonomic Neuropathies. Seminars in Neurology 2003;23(4).\r\n8.\tPinsky L, DiGeorge AM. Congenital familial sensory neuropathy with anhidrosis. J Pediatr 1966;68:1-13.\r\n9.\tNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: NINDS Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome Information Page. Available at: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/lesch_nyhan/lesch_nyhan.htm. Accessed February 13, 2007\r\n10.\tMedscape’s Continually Updated Clinical Reference: Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. Available at: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1181356-overview. Accessed Jun 29th, 2010.\r\n11.\tEdwards-Lee TA. Cornford ME, Yu K-T T. Congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis with mitochondrial and axonal abnormalities. Pediatr Neurol 1997;17:356-361. \r\n12.\tSerendip Update's blog: Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis. Available at: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1736. Accessed April 1st, 2008." relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 18 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2011-05-02 17:14:59 subjects: - OJHAS succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Congenital Insensitivity to Pain type: journale userid: 4338 volume: 9